20 Dec 2013

As promised I have the result of the Blog Hop Comments, there are 22 winners in all and I sincerely hope that you all enjoy your choice of image as much as we enjoy playing with them.

To claim and collect your image you need to click on theContacts Tabin the top bar above this post and on that page you can put your name, email address and in the subject line dont forget to add "Winner of the Blog Hop Comments" and your choice of image. You will find all the images onThe Paper Shelter Website here.

Thank you all for taking part in our blog hop, and we all want to wish everyone a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year and we will be back again with a brand new Challenge on January 8th, 2014, so see you then. Dont forget we do have a "Anything Goes" Challenge over the holiday break below but as we are now taking a 3 week holiday and we wont be commenting on your cards but that should not stop you entering as we will pick a winner in the New Year with our first challenge.

18 Dec 2013

Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers I sincerely hope you all enjoyed our Blog Hop I know the two Teams were thrilled at how well it was received, and today we are bringing both Teams together again for our Christmas Challenge and for this the theme is very simple its "Anything Goes" and I know its very popular with you all and because of this we wont be making any comments on your cards, we are going to take a 3 week break and spend more time with our families during the Christmas period, so I do hope you will forgive us and not take it to much to heart. Also I will write up one more post in the next couple of days with all the winners of the 22 images we are giving away as prizes for the comments left on each of the stops along the Blog Hop route, so do come back and see if you were one of the lucky people who won one.
And now you will want to know who won the Blog Hops "Special Birthday" Challenge and that lucky person picked by Random Org is:-

of collecting your prize and that is by clicking on the "Contact Tab" at the

Top on the Tabs Bar it will give you a form to fill up with your choice

of 3 Digis and can you make sure you put "Special Birthday" Challenge in the subject bar

and please also dont forget to add your email address to make it easier

for Veronica to sort out your images and get them to you quickly.

The prize for our Christmas Challenge is as always being sponsored by Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter they are offering a fabulous prize of $30.

As always this comes with the rule that you must have used one of their products on your card, and this can be a image, paper or printable, and Ive got to thank all those who took part in our Blog Hop who used one of The Paper Shelterimages as I know that more and more of you now own them its wonderful to see your interpretation of how they should look and I know that Veronica and Pedro love to see your creations. But I diverse if you haven't used one of their images you will still receive three images of your own choice so you really cant loose taking part in this Challenge, and if you would like to browse their website you will find ithere.
And now my most favourite part of writing up this Challenge is to show you what the girls have created for you, and believe me when I tell you they are stunning. I also want to thank both Lorraine andDebs for standing in as our Guest Designers for the last couple of months especially as this is the last Challenge they are both taking part in and hope that they will come back and join us again soon as we are going to miss them so much and have enjoyed working with them both again.

Well didnt I tell you they were stunning, thank you girls for all your hard work I hope you all enjoy your break and have a Wonderful Christmas with your families. And Im sure that it will have inspired you to take part in our "Anything Goes" Challenge and we look forward to seeing what you come up with. And now dont forget that this is a 3 week Challenge and we will be back in the New Year on January 8th for our first Challenge of the year. Dont forget to come back in the next couple of days to see if you were one of the lucky winners of our Blog Hop.

4 Dec 2013

Good Morning to All you Paper Shelter Followers, on the 8th of December The Paper Shelterwill be celebrating their 3rd Birthday and here on the Challenge Blog we love to do something special to celebrate the occasion and this is by joining both the A and B Design Teams together and hosting a Blog Hop and because its a special time we always have extra special prizes and this time its no different so I do hope that you will visit all the Teams blogs and leave them some love and then if you are chosen by them, one of you (from each of the blogs) will win a image from The Paper Shelter just by leaving a comment, and if you prefer not to do the Blog Hop I do hope you will take part in the "Special Birthday" Challenge instead.
But before I tell you more you will want to know who won last weeks "Shopping Spree" Challenge, yes I know its was a hard one and I must congratulate all those that took the theme and ran with it we did have number of entries and the lucky person picked by random org is :-

Random Integer Generator

of collecting your prize and that is by clicking on the "Contact Tab" at the

Top on the Tabs Bar it will give you a form to fill up with your choice

of 3 Digis and can you make sure you put Challenge #139 in the subject bar

and please also dont forget to add your email address to make it easier

for Veronica to sort out your images and get them to you quickly.

And as always Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter are offering a fabulous prize for this "Special Birthday" Blog Hop and Challenge and its $30.

But dont forget to win this prize you must have used one of their products on your card, it could be either a image, digital paper or a printable, but even if you havent they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice, you will find lots to see on The Paper Shelter website. Now that sounds a fair doesnt it, and I know a lot of you have now got images from The Paper Shelter so you should be using them more on your cards for the chance to win the big prize.And to stand a chance of winning yet another prize is to leave your comments on each of the Teams Blogs along the Hop, as we have 22 imagesto give away as well as the main prize, once the challenge is over the girls will pick a winner from their comments so you never know you might well stand a chance to win one there to.
And as this is a Blog Hop only Marie and I will be showing our cards, the rest of the Teams you will have to pay a visit to, if you miss any of them you will find a whole list of them below and dont forget once you have reached Marie as shes the last on the hop, pop back here and leave a comment so that we can see how you enjoyed our Blog Hop.

And as a bonus you could also leave our new teamie Anne some love, she's not officially a part of the hop as she came on the team after we had it all planed and on the go. Pop on over and give her some love and you have a chance of winning a digi there to, and you don't even have to do the whole hop.

When you finished visitingMarie's dont forget to return here and leave your comments as to how much you enjoyed it, we would love to hear how you go on, and I also would like to thank all the girls on both Teams for all their hard work in getting this Blog Hop off the ground. And I am sure the girls have inspired you to take part in this fortnights "Special Birthday" Challenge and Im especially looking forward to seeing what you come up with.And dont forget there is no obligation to do the Blog Hop if you would prefer not to, and if you dont I do hope that you will take part in the Challenge anyway.

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Challenge Rules

1. You don't need to use a Digi from The Paper Shelter to enter, but those using a Paper Shelter Digi will be eligible to win the $30 Gift Certificate. Any winner not using a Paper Shelter image will win 3 Digi of their choice.

2. No backlinking to previous posts.

3. You may combine our challenge with any other challenges but you MUST provide a link back to our challenge blog in your post.

4. Prize must be claimed by the Saturday after the winner has been announced or it will be forfeited.

5. Maximum 3 entries (one of them must contain a paper shelter image)

For your info:Our DT members don't have to comment on creations that have been entered in to more than 10 challenges, but you still have the chance to win the prize.

Anyone not following the rules will have their entries deleted.

Challenges run weekly from Wed 9 A.M. till the following Tues at 8 P.M.